The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
THE NEW PARTY'S APOSTLE
DR.. McGlynn's Lecture Last EVENING" on
''The Cross of the New Crusade"
About Five Hundred People, Including Several
Protestant Clergymen, Gather at Tomlnson
Hall to Hear the Much Talked-0f Priest.

ABOUT nvo hundred people at Iomllnson hall
last night. He came here on the invitation of a
few gentlemen TO tell of ''The Cross of the New
Crusade" While many of the labor advocates
who heard him do not altogether indorse his
conclusions. they still have sufficient sympa-
thy with them to give his visit an
influence irrespective of the George doctrines
The Doctor is tall, with portliness in keeping
with his height His face. clean shaver, hair
brushed back from the forehead and kindly
expression of features denote the priest. while
his Prince Albert and turned-down collar indi
cate the lawyer. His utterances are positive,
phrased in earnest eloquence which is at times
somewhat ornate in rhetoric. but forceful in
holding tie attention of an auditor throughout
Now and then he tells happy anecdote that re-
lieves the statelincss of his diction. But he
never goes beyond conversational tone, varied
by resonant pronunciation of the words he
most particularly desires to impress upon his
hearers The Doctor was somewhat late in 60
ing to the rostrum. He waited in courtesy to
several Protestant clergymen who expressed a
desire to hear him, but who would for a part of
the evening be detained at other meetings. It
was $50 o'clock before he began his address.
There were half dozen gentlemen on the stage
at the time, while the audience below and in the
galleries was half made up of ladies. As he spoke
many of his periods were warmly applauded,
and none more earnestly than those in which he
claimed that the doctrine he taught was in agree
ment with revealed religion. ]. F. Mcdonald,
secretary of the Union Labor partys national
executive committee. presided, and in brief
speech of reference to the cause in which they
were interested. introduced the eloquent priest.
Dr. McGlynn following the method of an ora
tor, who strives to enforce his argument more by
expression of the face than gestures, began in a
clear tone, in which every word was spoken as if
measured, to tell of the great invention of ma
chinery- This one would suppose would
lessen the burdens of the working people,
but instead, men and women, with all the vast
variety of labor-saving machines are doomed to
toll as they have never done before We often
speak of the oppression of the dark ages as peo-
pie call them. but then workers rarely knew
what oppression was, compared with that of to-
day. With the increase of wealth comes the in
crease of poverty. Why is it that the laborer
gets so little for his work while others get so
much from it! This is the labor question, the
solution of which is to be found in the new cru
sade
The Doctor then reviewed his connection WITH
and the ends to be sought of the agitation OF the
right of the Ir sh nation to the land of their
birth As is quite we'll known. he was at that
time censured by the church dignitaries at Rome
for favoring what they called IAN Irish revolu-
ton" and to this censure he referred with
touch of irony. "And all this" he continued on
that line, because have believed it to be an
economic truth. fundamental truth. consonant
with the teachings, the precepts and the exam
Piles of Christ, that God is not partial Father.
but that He is equally the Father of all
kind. Therefore, when He sent the human
H. ~. IL all
joy it. He gave no man set of men the priv
lege of monopoliZing all the bounties He had
created for the whole human family, and then
of charging monopoly price to the masses of
Gods children for the enjoyment of small por-
ton of them.
II believe that this economic truth, that is
as old as the human family. and upon which the
human family in its primitive state acted as a
matter of course. is truth that is plainly taught
to men by the laws of nature, and is insinuated
by the teachings of Him who has taught US all
that We are of one Father. The doctrine is not
a now one. The movement that has gained such
head in times, that has gained such won
drous strength that has received SO much agrees
sion, that has set all men thinking and talking
within the last few months, is the movement
that We designate by the name of The New
Crusade At the very outset, though We must
protest that while 1t is In some sense new cru
SADIE. yet it is but an earnest, more active move
ment for the achievement and restoration of
rights that are rs old as man himself.
This movement is to bring it back again to
the minds of men, and with it to bring back
sweet religion. Religion is being rapidly ban
sned from the world, and the SO called Christian
nations of the earth need largely to be recon-
verified to Christianity.
st is an obvious truth that the Christian
church shall never regain what it has lost until
these truths shall prevail. This new crusade is
not warlike ope. 1t is a peaceful, lawful, a
constitutional agitation for the primal and the
inalienable rights of all of Gods children to
al in nd in all fhe bonn
ties of the Father to His children.
This cross of the new crusade, then, need not
be any material emblem like IN the crusades of
DID, but it stands for the acceptance by men
and women. by whomsoever will hear, of the
CALL the trumpet blast that invites them to for
get themselves, to set aside their wretched
strfes. to utterly renounce the injustice in
which they may have been engaged, and to take
on a new enthusiasm of humanity in believing,
in working, in battling, in suffering, and, if need
be, in dying, Cor the right for great truth
that shall not be guilty of the indiscretion of
calling new truth, for a truth that, like all
great truths, must in its germ and in its essence
be as old as God himself in eternity, and as old
as the world or the race of men in time.
"And so it is a new crusade in which you are
invited, for the proclaiming for the propagatlng,
and the enforcing of an ancient rruth-a truth
that is eGninently coIsonant with the great truth
Of Christianity itself-and, properly understood,
resolves itself into the very essence, the very
core of all religion, taught us by Him who
Spah6 as never man Spake before OF since, ana
in homely accents, and in simple parallels.
taught the poor, the lowly. and the oppressed
the comforting doctrine, full of truth and
! light, of the fatherhood of one God and the
universal brotherhood of man.
'.This new crusade then, while, to use mod
ern phrase. there is nothing sectarian about it,
is necessarily religious movement And per
/ NIT me say, and am not at all singular In the
saying of it, if it were not religious movement
you might at the very outset count me out of IT.
| for think that any cause any movement, any
object that enlists the thought of men and the
| affections of the hearts of men must have a re
| ligious inspiration, religious justification and q
religious contamination, the cause is not
] worth wasting our breath, time and ouI
| strength upon. 1t were useless to pirate about
| truth, and beauty, and goodness, and justice
| and humanity, and the brotherhood of man, il
this truth, and justice, and goodness. and beau
ty, and this universal brotherhood found moi
their source and their center, their type, theil
| ideal, their justification in God himself.
This cross of the new crusade is the EN- bem
! of movement for the emancipation of men, fol
the restoration to them of their natural liberties
| and rights. This new crusade is for the enforce
| ment of of these great truths of which
| have already spoken to you-a truth that, will
diversity of natural outlines, God has given ar
equality of essential rights to all His children
| Just because they are His children that fo
every mouth he sends into the world to be fec
/ He sends, with rare exceptions, pair of hands
/ to feed it, that he has made us ground animals
and not fishes birds. and therefore He ha